Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-09-10

the interior Of this vast continent, and longed
TO put them to the proof. and now here saw
it with my own eyes and was dumfOunded
Truly, a Sir Henry said the old Roman was
right when h" wrote: "Ex Africa sempeI
aliquid novi," which he tells me means that
out Of Africa there always comes some new
! thing
Inc man III The boat was OF good hut MOI
particularly flne physique, and had StralSht'
black hair' regular hquiIine features, anu al
/ ihtellgeht lace. lie was dressed IN Drown
cioth garment, something Ike flannei shllt
I without the sleeves, and IN an un-nlstakaole
Nil OF the SAME material lhe legs ana ieet
We're bare hound the right arm ana lett ie-
he wore thick rings OF yellow metal that
Judged to be OF gold. The woman had a
sweet lace, Wild ami shy, with large eyes ana
| curing brown haif Her dress was made OF
the same material AS the mans, ana consisted l.
as We Afterwards discovered, flrst ot linen
under garment that hung down TO her Knee,
ana theh OF single long strlp OF cloth, about
Tour leet wide by hiteen long, which was
wound round the body III graceful folds and
i'aiiy hutiS over the ieit shoulder 5" 'hat 'h'
emu "hich WAS "Std blue or purple or some
other Color according To the social standing <
OF 'he "earer' hung down IN front, the right
arm anu breast ieing. foweVer' left quite
oafe' n more bc"hiihG dress, esie'laiiS
"hen' ms IN the present case, the wearer was
young ana pretty, Is quite lmiSssiblc 10 con-
! ceiVe. Eood, who has an eye for such things,
was greatly struck with It, and SO indeed was
l. IL was 50 simple and Yet 50 elective
Meanwhile, if we had been astonished at
the appearance of the man and woman, 1t
was clear that they were far more astonished
at us. As for the man, he appeared to be
overcome with fear and wonder, and for a
while lowered round our canoe, hut would
not approach. At last however he came
within hailing distance. and called to us in IA
| language that sounded soft and pleasing
enough but of which we could not understand
one word. 50 we hailed back in English,
French. Latin, Greek. German, Zulu Dutch,
Sl>utu, kukuana, and few other native
dialects that am acquainted with, but our
visitor did not understand any of these
tongues; indeed, they appeared to bewilder
him As for the lady, she was busily EN-
ployed In taking stock OF US, and God was
returning the compliment by staring at her
hard through his eyegiass, proceeding that
she seemed rather TO enjoy than otherwise.
At length the man, being unable to make
anything out OF US, suddenly headed his boat
round and began 10 head of for the shore,
his little boat skirnming away before the
wind like swallow. As she passed across
our bows, the man turned to attend to the
large sail, and Good promptly took the oppor-
tunIty 10 kiss his hand to the young lady.
was Mortified at this proceeding both on
general grounds and because l feared that
she might take otrense, but to my delight she
lid not, for, first gancing round and seeing
hat her husband, or brother, or whoever 1t
was was engaged, she promptly kissed hers
back.
All. SAID !, 1t seems that We have at
last found language that the people of this
country understand
In which case, said Sir Henry, "Good
Will prove an lnvairahle interpreter"
drowned, for no not approve OF Goods
frlvolities and he knows 1t, ard turned the
conversation to more serious subjects 1t Is
very clear TO HE, l said. that the man will
he back before long Will "A host OF his fellows,
so that We had best make up our minds as to
how we are going to receive them"
The question Is, how Will they receive usi'
said SIR Henry.
As for Good, he made no remark, but De
gan to extract small square tin case that
had accompanied Us In all our "ahderlngS
from under pile Of baggage Now. We had
often demonstrated with Good about tins TIN
case, lnasmuch as 1t had been an awkward
thing TO carry. and he had never given any
very explicit account as to ITS contents; but
he had insisted on keeping II, saying mySteri-
ousy that 1t might come In very useful one
day.
Nv hat on earth are you gong TO do, Good:
asked Sir Henry
"Do-why dress, OF course! You don't
expect me to appear In new country IN
these things, do youE and lie pointed TO his
soiied and worn garments, which We're, how
ever. Ike all Goods things, very udy, and
with every tear neatly mended
We SAID no more, but watched his proceed
ings with breathless interest His first step
was TO get Aiphonse, who was thoroughly
competent IN such matters, 10 trim his hair
and beard IN the most approved fashion. l
think that If he had had some hot water and
cake oil soap at hand he would have shaved
off the latter, but he had not. This done, he
suggested that We should lower the sail Of the
oroatIr ~ tho hnrror .nd .s,nnisbme,t of
Alnbonse who Iiftad b;s b,,rds and ei,cu-
late, that these FpgIisb yyar, ipd.,.d n won.
derfuI n.o,ls I-mslnrnga,s who .bopob h.,
WAS like most birh bred Znius scr1,nuIousIv
cleanly in his p.rson- did moi ~. the .un ~
SWIMMING ,hnur =, n lake ais, rsearjad ,ba
nrocee,,inr with mild amusement, w. 90,
hack into tbe canoe mucb refreshed bv The
cold water and sat to dry in the sun. while
Good undid his tin box and praiuced first a
h.autiful Glenn whit. shirt jus, As il had loft
a London steam laundry. and then SOM. gar
meuts wrapped frs, in brown. then in whit
and finally in silver PAPER, We watched this
undoipg with the tenderest interest and mucb
speculation. One by one Good removed the
dull Lusks that held their sulendors carefully